Solicitor during the george h. W. Bush administration. He was asked about safety, the minimum wage and protections for lgbtq workers among other topics. Good morning. Good morning. Should. Good morning. Good morning. The committee will come to order. Today were considering the nomination of Eugene Scalia. The Senate Committee on Health Education and pensions will please come to order. Today were considering the nomination of Eugene Scalia to serve as United States secretary of of labor. Let me say before i begin my Opening Statement that we welcome secretary chao, secretary, good to see you, and we welcome mr. Scalias family. Well give him a chance to introduce all of them a little later. There are so many of them i will the scalias are especially productive family, apparently, so it wont come any of your allotted time for your statement, and i would say to the family members that the confirmation hearings are a not necessarily a family exercise. I was before this committee myself more
Them and if they dont, were given a company that doesnt qualify a 20 Million Contract to date. Im encouraging our body to not disrupt or process at all, coming up with a transition between contract a and b. None of the product is pr pro py tore. We by it and own it and get to use it. Ill just tell you where im at. I was here in 2017 and i owned it then and i will own it now. Once you sign off on something, you dont walk back. We had a discussion in 2017 and this would all come up and laid out. And i supported it then and i support it now. I appreciate what youre saying. Whatever, but we signed off on this as a commission. And everyone commission there, i was here, president brandon, commission kunalokis and commission katz, we had this discussion and it was tough. I cant see this putting this out to bid i mean, we have to own this. We signed off on it. Im going to vote in favour because i agreed to do that. But to stop everything and then you want it back out to bid, i cant support tha
Coming up with a transition between contract a and b. None of the product is pr pro py tore. We by it and own it and get to use it. Ill just tell you where im at. I was here in 2017 and i owned it then and i will own it now. Once you sign off on something, you dont walk back. We had a discussion in 2017 and this would all come up and laid out. And i supported it then and i support it now. I appreciate what youre saying. Whatever, but we signed off on this as a commission. And everyone commission there, i was here, president brandon, commission kunalokis and commission katz, we had this discussion and it was tough. I cant see this putting this out to bid i mean, we have to own this. We signed off on it. Im going to vote in favour because i agreed to do that. But to stop everything and then you want it back out to bid, i cant support that. We have to live with that and i hope weve learned something from this process. But i tell you where im at and if youre worried its no good, you cant s
Next a discussion with political strategists and call policy officials on immigration policy and 20 20 election. We talked about her recent bowl and the possibility of political compromise. The Bipartisan Policy Center hosted this event. Thank you for coming out, welcome to the Bipartisan Policy Center and thank you very much for joining us for our conversation on immigration and the 2020 election before we get started we are Live Streaming this event andvideo of the event will be available on our website after were done. Therefore when it comes to q and a we will ask that you wait for the microphone so people who arguing us on their computers or phones or whatever can understand the questions. We invite you to along with us in the events using a tag that you see life. We will see some staff that will be treating the event as well. And just to do a little bit of the scene center and teresa brown director of immigration and policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center and we have been working
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